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HIGHLIGHTS 1. Chinese think tank analyst says India’s stand in Sikkim stand-off flawed 2. He said same logic could mean third-party intervention in Kashmir 3. Chinese state media have been very critical of India on Doklam standoff A “third country’s” Army could enter Kashmir at Pakistan’s request, using the “same logic” the Indian Army used…

India will deploy its Rafale combat aircraft to Ambala in Haryana and Hashimara in West Bengal in a bid to counter future war threats from China and Pakistan. A government official was quoted saying that an IAF squadron composed of 18 Rafale planes will be deployed to the two regions, India Today reported. The jets…

Turkey and Pakistan have signed a memorandum of understanding for the sale of four Turkish made corvette warships and 52 Pakistan-made training planes for Ankara’s armed forces, Turkey’s defence industry undersecretariat said on Wednesday. Karachi Shipyard (KS&EW) will buy four corvettes made under Turkey’s MILGEM warship programme, aimed at designing and building locally a fleet…

China on Tuesday officially turned over a 600-ton maritime ship to Pakistan in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The ship, which is the third of its kind, will be used to protect Pakistan’s maritime interest at a time when both countries are pushing the CPEC initiative. It was built by China Shipbuilding Trading Company Ltd. and China…

India may be reinterpreting its nuclear weapons doctrine, circumstantial evidence suggests, with potentially significant ramifications for the already tenuous nuclear balance in South Asia. New assessments suggest that India is considering allowing for pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Pakistan’s arsenal in the event of a war. This would not formally change India’s nuclear doctrine, which bars…

On March 2, a suspected U.S. drone strike inside Pakistan killed two Taliban militants in the country’s tribal region — the first drone attack in the country since Donald Trump became president. The strike ended a nine-month pause in the CIA’s long-running drone war in Pakistan, raising expectations that the Trump administration will increase the…

There is increasing evidence that India could launch a preemptive first strike against Pakistan if it feared a nuclear attack was imminent, in a marked reversal of its well-known no-first use policy, according to a leading nuclear strategist. But this first strike will not be aimed at urban centres and conventional targets of a retaliatory…